As a result of Megan Meier’s suicide:

A Senate committee heard testimony Monday night on the bill, sponsored by Sen. Scott Rupp, a Republican, that is modeled after recommendations from a special gubernatorial task force created to study Internet harassment.

The proposed law would punish someone 21 or older who harassed someone 17 years old or younger with up to four years in prison.

It also would require school officials to tell police about harassment and stalking on school grounds. And it updates state laws against harassment to include computers, text messages and other electronic devices, not just telephone or written communications.

Well, the devil is in the details.

Not unrelated: More Archbishop Rowan Atkinson Williams bufoonery. Exactly the wrong man at exactly the wrong time:

“It is as if the prolonged and widespread debate on the recently-introduced religious hatred legislation had never happened,” said Mr Sanderson. “Dr Williams takes us right back to the beginning with his special pleading for the protection of religious feelings – in other words, another form of blasphemy law that would be even worse than the one we’re about to ditch.” Mr Sanderson pointed out that the Racial and Religious Hatred Act – which had been under consideration for five years – was now on the statute book. “It was enacted only after a great deal of bitter dispute between religious interests and those who feared for free speech,” he said.

“There is also now in law a concept of religious aggravation that can be applied to some public order offences. It carries a potential prison sentence of seven years. This is draconian and extreme by any measure – and now the Archbishop appears to want something else.”Mr Sanderson said that the Archbishop appeared in his speech to be making excuses for those who rioted about the Salman Rushdie case and threatened the author with death. He also seems to think that those who created lethal street protests over the Danish cartoons had a point. “

The Archbishop’s speech is, at base, self-serving and dangerously illiberal,” Mr Sanderson said. “We certainly hope that the Government is not now going to bring forward something even more extreme as a quid pro quo for abolishing blasphemy.”

To which I say, f%&# the f%&#ing Archbishop. (h/t InstaPundit)

Q: Can you identify the difference between these two issues?

UPDATE: Midwest Conservative Journal